Testimony of Healing January 1, 1949 Issue

Being the grandson of a Protestant...

Edwin C. Newton

Being the grandson of a Protestant minister, I was reared in a home where I was early taught the Bible and was required to attend both church and Sunday School. I had to memorize much of the Bible, and as I grew old enough to ask what I felt were intelligent and natural questions, I was disappointed that not even the ministers themselves could give what I considered a good reason for their faith. This in time caused me to become rebellious at anything that savored of religion.

Later in my life, a member of my family was about to pass on because of so–called internal cancer in its last stages. A consultation by specialists resulted in the verdict that the patient could live but a few days, perhaps a week or so.

A friend, hearing of this, asked me to investigate Christian Science and sent me to a man whose wife had been healed of a similar trouble some fourteen years earlier. This resulted in my procuring a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and taking it many miles into the country to the patient. I was not familiar with absent treatments and failed to get a Christian Science practitioner to go so far away. The book was given to the patient, who line by line, as strength permitted, read it for about two weeks. Then she was able to dress, travel over country roads in a buggy and thence by train to a large city, where the services of a practitioner were obtained and her healing was completed. Still I did not study for myself.

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